Cubatão
Cubatão is an industrial city once known as the "most polluted city in the world", in the Santos region of São Paulo state. It is considered a world symbol of environmental recovery by the United Nations.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ulrich Peters, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 112,000 residents
- Description: municipality of São Paulo state, Brazil
- Neighbors: Santo André, Santos, São Bernardo do Campo, and São Vicente
Places of Interest
Highlights include Henry Borden Hydroelectric Power Plant and Pontilhão da Serra.
Henry Borden Hydroelectric Power Plant
Power station
Photo: Marcus Cabaleiro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Henry Borden Hydroelectric Power Plant is a power station.
Padrão do Lorena
Work of art
Photo: Helena Domingos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Padrão do Lorena is a work of art.
Cubatão
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city, and locality
- Location: Santos and South Coast, São Paulo, Southeast, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-23.8842° or 23° 53′ 3″ southLongitude
-46.4213° or 46° 25′ 17″ westPopulation
112,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
BR CUOOpen location code
588M4H8H+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 368180195OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Cubatão from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cubatão” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيوباتو”
- Basque: “Cubatão”
- Belarusian: “Кубатан”
- Bengali: “কুবাতাও”
- Bishnupriya: “কুবাটাও”
- Bulgarian: “Кубатао”
- Catalan: “Cubatão”
- Cebuano: “Cubatão”
- Chechen: “Кубатан”
- Chinese: “Cubatão”
- Chinese: “库巴唐”
- Chinese: “庫巴唐”
- Chinese: “庫巴坦”
- Czech: “Cubatão”
- Danish: “Cubatão”
- Dutch: “Cubatao”
- Dutch: “Cubatão”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيوباتو”
- Esperanto: “Cubatão”
- Finnish: “Cubatão”
- French: “Cubatao”
- French: “Cubatão”
- German: “Cubatao”
- German: “Cubatão”
- Greek: “Κουμπατάο”
- Gujarati: “ક્યુબાટેઓ”
- Hebrew: “קובטאו”
- Hindi: “कूबातो”
- Hungarian: “Cubatão”
- Indonesian: “Cubatão”
- Indonesian: “Cubato”
- Indonesian: “Kuba”
- Irish: “Cubatão”
- Italian: “Cubatão”
- Japanese: “クバタン”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಯೂಬಟಾವೊ”
- Kazakh: “Kwbatan”
- Kazakh: “Кубатан”
- Kazakh: “كۋباتان”
- Korean: “쿠바타오”
- Korean: “쿠바탕”
- Latvian: “Kubatao”
- Lithuanian: “Kubatanas”
- Lithuanian: “Kubataunas”
- Malagasy: “Cubatão”
- Malay: “Cubatao”
- Marathi: “क्युबाटॅनो”
- Mazanderani: “کوباتو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cubatão”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cubatão”
- Norwegian: “Cubatão”
- Ossetian: “Кубатан”
- Persian: “کوباتو”
- Polish: “Cubatao”
- Polish: “Cubatão”
- Portuguese: “Cubatão”
- Portuguese: “Jardim Casqueiro”
- Romanian: “Cubatao”
- Romanian: “Cubatão”
- Russian: “Кубатан”
- Scots: “Cubatao”
- Scots: “Cubatão”
- Sinhala: “කුබාටවෝ”
- Spanish: “Cubatão”
- Swedish: “Cubatão”
- Tamil: “குபாடோ”
- Tatar: “Кубатан”
- Telugu: “క్యూబాటావ్”
- Thai: “คูบาเทา”
- Turkish: “Cubatao”
- Ukrainian: “Кубатан”
- Urdu: “کوباتاو”
- Venetian: “Cubatão”
- Vietnamese: “Cubatao”
- Volapük: “Cubatão”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cubatão”
- Welsh: “Ciwbao”
- “Cubatão”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cubatão”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.